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CONSERVATION" 



ter understanding of the economic value 

 of the forest and the need of a more 

 conservative use of it. 



While conducting this educational 

 campaign, some practical work should 

 be done along the line of arboriculture. 

 The following lines of work are sug- 

 gested : 



I. Street and highway tree planting. 

 There is much of this work to be done. 



spring, the tree-butcher and his saw go 

 forth on their work of destruction, un- 

 der the delusion that this annual mutila- 

 tion is essential to the life and beauty 

 of the tree. 



3. Protection of trees from telephone 

 and electric-light wires. Along this 

 line, there is urgent need of reform 

 work. Wherever the lineman goes, 

 tree-destruction and tree-mutilation in- 



FOREST FIRES 

 Fighting Flames in an Adirondack Forest 



Few of our country highways are tree- 

 shaded, and, in the interest of both com- 

 fort and beauty, tree planting should 

 go hand and hand with road improve- 

 ment. Most of the towns have tree- 

 shaded streets, but investigation will re- 

 veal the fact that the trees are in need 

 of attention. They have been planted 

 too closely together, are diseased, in- 

 jured by horses, and mutilated by tree- 

 pruners. 



2. Use of proper methods in planting 

 and pruning. Few people know any- 

 thing about tree-pruning, yet every 



evitably follow. Go where you will in 

 the rural districts of Missouri and yon 

 will see long stretches of barren, ugly 

 road, with gaunt, wire-strung poles on 

 either side, in place of the beautiful, 

 tree-shaded highways that should be a 

 marked feature of every rural view. In 

 towns and cities, the same conditions 

 exist, and it is time that some restrain- 

 ing measures are taken. 



5. Bird protection. ISird preservation 

 is as essential, for economic reasons, as 

 tree preservation. 



